David Suzuki Slams Conservative Party's Trump-Like 'Rejection Of Facts' Article Byline Information Posted: 11/21/2016 7:08 pm EST Updated: 11/22/2016 8:36 am EST Much like climate change, the effects of Donald Trump's election will not stay on the southern side of the U.S.-Canada border. There have already been hate crimes since the American election results and, as David Suzuki told The Huffington Post Canada, Trump's anti-diversity and "frightening" campaign rhetoric is being echoed by Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch and her party. "Trump's campaign really was based on the rejection of facts and rationality," Suzuki said, connecting U.S. Republican candidates' climate change denial during their primary season with a similar stance by Canada's Conservative party leadership contenders. "We had the recent debate among Conservatives and Michael Chong got up and said he favoured some kind of carbon tax and he
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Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami
Edited time: 22 Nov, 2016 01:52 Cranes are seen at the No. 3 reactor building, next to the No.4 building, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. © Kimimasa Mayama / Reuters The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake. TEPCO said it managed to restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure. LIVE UPDATES: 7.3 Fukushima quake & tsunami The cooling system servicing the Unit 3 spent fuel pool was not able to circulate water to cool the nuclear fuel because of a broken pump, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The temperature in the pool went up to 28.7 degrees Celsius. It takes up to seven days for temperatures to rise to 65 degrees Celsius, which is the upper operational limit, Japan’s national nuclear agency said. According to NHK, cooling equipment